[yocto-ab] YP Advisory Board VOTE: Aldec, YP Participant

[Jeff Osier-Mixon]

Hi folks - with 200 employees, these folks are a bit larger than our
standard YP Participants, but we have voted to allow companies this
large in the past. Please vote yes/no for Aldec for YP Participant.
(and yes, I will encourage them to join the project)

Submitted on Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 15:22
Submitted by anonymous user: [209.118.195.162]
Submitted values are:

   --Contact information--
     Organization / project name: Aldec Inc
     Contact name: Louie De Luna
     Contact email address: louied at aldec.com
     URL to organization or product link:
     https://www.aldec.com/en/products/embedded/tysom
     Registration date: 2016-08-16
     Compliance Agreement revision: 1.0


Criteria:
  - Visibly participating in the Yocto Project community. Please describeyour
participation in the comments section below.: Yes
  - Working towards and supporting the aims and objectives of the Yocto
Project. These include decreasing the fragmentation of embedded ecosystem and
focusing around a common shared set of tools, formats and best practices. We
want to avoid multiple groups of people repeating the same work and have one
set of great tools rather than multiple tools with drawbacks.: Yes
  - Committed to promoting the OpenEmbedded architecture, layer model, andBSP
format.: Yes
  - Are all your publicly accessible layers listed in the OpenEmbedded Layers
index (http://layers.openembedded.org)?: Yes
  - Committed to sending to the open source community any patches to
OpenEmbedded-Core, BitBake and other Yocto Project layers.: Yes
  - Aiming for compatibility and interoperability among different metadata
layers.: Yes
  - Are a non-profit, small business (up to 80 employees), or existing Yocto
Project member organization, or if the project's parent organization is an
open-source project.: No (explain below)
Explanation:
Aldec is 30+ year, ~200 employees, private company who provides hardware
(FPGA/ASIC) simulation/verification platform supporting the latest LRM or
VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog/SystemC.  We just released our newest product -
TySOM EDK which consists of an RTL Simulation/Verification Platform and
Zynq-based development board.

We are using the Yocto Project to build GNU Linux OS for TySOM boards based
on Xilinx Zynq FPGA with ARM Cortex A-9. We have prepared Aldec meta layer
configuration based on Yocto project, and it simplified building Linux OS for
the TySOM board. Moreover, our documentation explains all necessary steps to
build Linux OS for TySOM board to simplify the process to our customers..

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Jeff Osier-Mixon - Open Source Community Engineer, Intel Corporation